I used the resources in this thread to get sopcast up and running. All of the active gui's seem to use the qt libraries so I didn't bother with a GUI. There wasn't much out there in the way of a how-to once it was installed so I thought I'd post it here to save any new users some time...

Once the sp-sc is ready in your /usr/bin all you need is a sop:// url. Connect to the stream using the following commands:

Code:

$ sp-sc [url] 3908 8908 >/dev/null &

This will return a processID. Next, open your favorite media viewer and open the following network stream:

Haha yeah, the reason I didn't try your ebuild is because I'm a noob and haven't installed any 3rd party ebuilds before. Now that you've tempted me with it I had to try. Here's as far as I was able to get:

Added

Code:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/"

to make.conf

Added

Code:

=media-tv/sopcast-1.1.1
=media-tv/gsopcast-0.0.17g

to package.keywords

Created gsopcast-0.0.17g.ebuild and sopcast-1.1.1.ebuild from the info in this thread